Sunday, July 21, 2013

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 7/22/2013

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Microsoft Loses $900 Million on Surface RT Media Tablets
Microsoft Writes Down $900 Million As a Result of Surface RT Price-Cut

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Pre-Orders on Xbox One Are Already Sold Out - Microsoft
Microsoft Xbox One Pre-Orders Trending Ahead of Xbox 360 Pre-Orders

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Microprocessor Sales Are Up, Graphics Chip Shipments Down at AMD
AMD Posts $74 Million in Quarterly Losses, Vows to Become Profitable Next Year

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New Consoles Coming, But Forecasts Fall Short of Previous Highs - Analysts
More Market Trackers Doubt High Sales of Next-Gen Consoles

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Sony: Expect PlayStation 4 Games to Have Photorealistic Facial Expressions
Sony Expects PS4 Games to Have Nearly Photorealistic Graphics

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Lenovo Discontinues Windows RT-Based IdeaPad Yoga 11
Another Windows RT-Powered Device Discontinued

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New Development Could Enable Graphene-Based Magnetic Media Storage
Scientists Create Magnetic Switch from Graphene

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Intel, Universities Explore 5G Wireless Communication Technologies
Intel and Verizon Lead 5G Strategic Research Alliance

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AMD Implies on Consumer-Oriented ARM-Based Microprocessors
AMD Sees Value in Both ARM and x86 Architectures

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Intel's Revenue, Profit and Gross Margin Shrink, Company Cuts Expectations
Intel Suffers from Major PC Sales Decline in the Second Quarter

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NanoTech Develops 4K Media Players Based on Nvidia Tegra 4 Application Processor
NanoTech NP-1, NP-C Media Players Use Nvidia Tegra 4K System-on-Chips

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Intel: Future Atom Processors Will Get Same Process Technologies and Architectural Advantages as Core Processors
Intel Wants to Align Innovations Between Atom and Core Product Families

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Samsung Develops Enterprise-Class SSD with 3000MB/s Read Speed, NVMe Interface
Samsung Reveals World's First Enterprise SSD with PCIe/NVMe Interface

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Lenovo Executive Sees Potential in PCs, Admits Slow Windows 8 Adoption
Chief Financial Officer of Lenovo Still Interested in PC Business

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Intel on Track with Volume 14nm Production This Year
Intel to Produce Broadwell Chips Later in 2013

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Asus P8Z77-M and Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H Review: Two LGA 1155 MicroATX Mainboards Comparison
The technical specifications of both these mainboard models based on Intel Z77 Express are almost identical, the prices are also very similar, so they seem like great candidates for side by side comparison. However, they turned out quite different from one another even when running in their nominal mode, not to mention the overclocked mode.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2 GB Graphics Card Review
Nvidia continues to roll out 7xx series graphics accelerators into the market. Today we are going to introduce to you a very worthy replacement to the good old single-GPU flagship solution - GTX 680. It is the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 graphics card.

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Battle of the Kings: AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX TITAN Performance Review
Today we are going to compare three fastest graphics accelerators of our times against one another in this ultimate performance test.

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BOOSTx7: GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST Graphics Cards Reviewed
Today we are going to discuss seven different graphics cards from EVGA, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit, ZOTAC and Nvidia. Which one of these entry-level products is the one?

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Asus P8Z77-V LE PLUS Mainboard Review: Flagship Product in Asus Entry-Level LGA 1155 Line-Up
This mainboard occupies an intermediate position between the high-end and entry-level mainboards from Asus based on Intel Z77 Express chipset. It has richer functionality than the entry-level models, boasts more powerful voltage regulator, supports USB BIOS Flashback technology. At the same time, it is not as energy-efficient as the entry-level products.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2 GB Graphics Card Review
The third and most likely the final graphics card this year in Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 7x0 family has just been officially launched. We studied its peculiarities and are going to show you how it compares against the previous generation competitors.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3 GB Graphics Card Review: +30% Everywhere
The flagship graphics accelerator from Nvidia's new line-up was introduced quite unexpectedly. It raised not only the performance bar, but also the price maximum. Our today's review will unveil how big of an increase occurred on all fronts.

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SanDisk Ultra Plus Solid State Drive Review
SanDisk Ultra Plus is a solid state drive with a platform that we are not yet familiar with: it is built on a four-channel Marvell SS889175 controller with 19 nm eX2 ABL MLC NAND manufactured by SanDisk. Will this combination prove to be a winner especially considering it very attractive price?

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Asus P8Z77-V Mainboard Review: Mainstream LGA 1155 Mainboard from Asus
The functionality and features of this mainboard could have been fit for a flagship board of the past, but today it is just enough to place this product in the very mainstream segment, making it the junior model from Asus on Intel Z77 Express chipset. And it is probably the first time that we see wireless support implemented in a far not the top mainboard model like that.

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Zotac GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition 6 GB Graphics Card and TITAN in 2-Way SLI Configuration Review
Today we are going to talk about the fastest mass production GeForce GTX TITAN graphics accelerator with air cooling as well as the results of a pair of TITAN cards in a 2-way SLI configuration.

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Choice of Champions: Asus ROG MATRIX 7970 3 GB Graphics Card Review
New Asus graphics accelerator can be called a true apogee of the Radeon HD 7970 evolution. It is hard to believe that there could ever be any faster or more advanced graphics accelerators before the HD 7000-series epoch comes to its logical end.

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Samsung 840 Pro and Samsung 840 Solid State Drives Review
Samsung currently offers very interesting solid state drives. Some boast outstanding performance, others - are built with inexpensive TLC NAND and come with a very appealing price tag. And our tests prove all of this: we are ready to discuss what we saw when we got our hands on a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB and Samsung 840 250 GB drives.

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AMD A10-6800K Review: Richland - Desktop APUs from 2013
AMD decided to refresh their Socket FM2 platform and release a new generation of hybrid processors for it based on Richland design. This is exactly the one that earned the "Elite Performance APU Platform" title in the mobile segment.

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Intel Core i7-4770K CPU Review. Intel Haswell for Desktops: Ruin of Our Hopes?
After a very long and anxious wait we can finally take a close look at one of the fourth generation Core processors for desktops, which is based on the new Haswell microarchitecture. Significantly higher performance, better energy-efficiency, excellent overclocking - all this isn't the case. What happened?

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GELID The Black Edition CPU Cooler Review: Man in Black
As many as seven heatpipes, dual-array heatsink, two fans - will the new GELID cooler become a super-cooler today? Let's find out.

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